Photos of the Week: July 11-July 18, 2014

China

Chen Aisen of China competes in the team event of the 19th FINA Diving World Cup at the Oriental Sports Center on July 15, 2014 in Shanghai, China.

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Great Britain

"Swan Uppers" make their way down the River Thames in a rowing boat as they search for swans and cygnets to be weighed and tagged during the annual Swan Upping census on the River Thames, South West London, July 14, 2014. The historic Swan Upping ceremony dates back to the 12th century, when the Crown claimed ownership of all mute swans and they were eaten at banquets and feasts. The Sovereign's Swan Marker, David Barber, counts the number of young cygnets on the river each year and ensures that the swan population is maintained. The swans and young cygnets are also assessed for any signs of injury or disease.

Credit: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Brazil

A traditionally dressed Bavarian German supporter walks along Copacabana Beach ahead of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil Final match in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 12, 2014.

Credit: Michael Steele/Getty Images

China

A Chinese worker gathers up sheep's wool imported from Australia after it was processed and bleached at a factory near Zhangzhou, China, July 12, 2014. The facility prepares wool to be used in the manufacturing of footwear and clothing for export to Western markets and for consumption within China.

Credit: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

Chicago

Justin Upton (8) of the Atlanta Braves tries to catch a ball hit by Arismendy Alcantara of the Chicago Cubs in the 1st inning at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois, July 13, 2014.

Credit: Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images

Brazil

FIFA President Joseph Blatter, Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel attend the 2014 FIFA World Cup final football match between Germany and Argentina at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, July 13, 2014.

Credit: Pedro Ugarte/AFP/Getty Images

France

Fireworks explode around the Eiffel Tower during the annual Bastille Day celebrations on July 14, 2014 in Paris, France. The French National Day commemorates the beginning of the French Revolution with the storming of the Bastille fortress and prison on July 14, 1789.

Credit: Frederic T Stevens/Getty Images

Spain

The "supermoon" rises over houses in Olvera, in the southern Spanish province of Cadiz, July 12, 2014. Occurring when a full moon or new moon coincides with the closest approach the moon makes to the Earth, the supermoon results in a larger-than-usual appearance of the lunar disk.

Credit: Jon Nazca/Spain

Japan

Crewmember Tetsuo Hayashi airbrushes the final touches to a 6.6 meter replica of the famous Godzilla at Tokyo Midtown in Tokyo, Japan, July 15, 2014. The "MIDTOWN Meets GODZILLA" project is in collaboration with the Japan release of the Hollywood film version of "Godzilla." The Godzilla built on the lawns of Tokyo Midtown will host a light show every night complete with mist, audio and fire rays.

Credit: Chris McGrath/Getty Images

California

A horse stands in a field of dried grass in Woodacre, California, July 15, 2014. As the severe drought in California continues to worsen, the state's landscape and many residents' lawns are turning brown due to lack of rain and the discontinuation of watering.

Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Israel

People mourn during the funeral of Dror Khenin at a cemetery in Yahud Monoson, Israel, July 16, 2014. Khenin was the first Israeli to be killed by a Hamas mortar in the recent clashes as he offered food to Israeli soldiers working near the Erez border crossing between Israel and Gaza.

Credit: Andrew Burton/Getty Images

Ukraine

Self-proclaimed prime minister of the pro-Russian separatist "Donetsk People's Republic" Alexander Borodai, center, stands as he arrives on the site of the crash of a Malaysian airliner carrying 298 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, near the town of Shaktarsk, in rebel-held east Ukraine, on July 17, 2014. The plane was shot down over Ukraine by a surface-to-air missile but it was unclear who fired the weapon, U.S. officials said.

Credit: Dominique Faget/AFP/Getty Images

Ukraine

Volunteers take an oath of allegiance to Ukraine, before being sent to the eastern part of Ukraine to join the ranks of special battalion "Azov" in Kiev, Ukraine Wednesday, July 16, 2014.

Credit: Sergei Chuzavkov/AP

Germany

A German fan with his face painted with the German national colors waits in front of a stage installed for a victory parade of Germany's football national team at Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate to celebrate their FIFA World Cup title, July 15, 2014. Germany won their fourth World Cup title, after 1-0 win over Argentina on July 13, 2014 in Rio de Janeiro in the FIFA World Cup Brazil final game.

Credit: Robert Michael/AFP/Getty Images

Oregon

In this July 13, 2014, photo released by the Oregon Dept. of Forestry, the Moccasin Hill fire burns north of Sprague River and northeast of Klamath Falls, Ore. Lightning struck Oregon more than 6,000 times over two days, touching off small fires by the dozens.

Credit: Oregon Dept. of Forestry, Dennis Lee via AP

Palestine

A Palestinian youth puts up a Palestinian flag over the rubble of a mosque, which police said was destroyed in an Israeli air strike, in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, July 12, 2014. The writing on the rubble (bottom) reads, "We will win in spite of your arrogance, Netanyahu", referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Credit: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa /Reuters

Great Britain

Blanka Vlasic of Croatia competes in the women's high jump during the IAAF Diamond League athletics meeting at Hampden Park in Glasgow, July 12, 2014.

Credit: Phil Noble/Reuters

Germany

Mahindra Moto3 rider Bryan Schouten of the Netherlands fights with compatriot Kalex KTM Moto3 rider Scott Deroue (R) after they crashed during the German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring circuit in the eastern German town of Hohenstein-Ernstthal, July 13, 2014.

Credit: Thomas Peter/Reuters

Israel

Israelis look over the northern Gaza Strip from a lookout hill near Sderot, July 13, 2014.

Credit: Nir Elias/Reuters

New York

People stand with umbrellas during a rainstorm along the 43rd street at Times Square in New York, July 15, 2014.

Credit: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

Philippines

A fisherman's house in the middle of a fish pen leans to one side as it is pounded by waves, strong winds and rain brought by Typhoon Rammasun (known locally as Glenda) in the coastal town of Bacoor, Cavite, southwest of Manila, July 16, 2014. The typhoon, the strongest to hit the country this year, tore through eastern islands, toppling trees and power lines and causing blackouts. It brought storm surges to the Manila Bay area and prompted disaster officials to evacuate slum-dwellers on the capital's outskirts.

Credit: Erik De Castro/Reuters

Germany

Customer Andreas Kroker looks at a 3D-printed figure of himself at the Twinkind 3D printing studio in Berlin, December 13, 2013. A 3D-printed likeness is produced by taking a 360 degree photographic scan of a person, which is then rendered into a 3D digital model and retouched to meet the requirements for printing. The printing machine uses this digital model to produce a high-resolution solid figure. Twinkind co-founder Timo Schaedel said, people often come to the session well-groomed, with fresh hair-cuts and their best clothes, "just as they used to do in the past, when they had their portrait taken in a photo studio."

Credit: Thomas Peter/Reuters

Switzerland

Swiss tennis player Roger Federer serves a ball to U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn during a promotional tennis event on the Aletsch glacier at the Jungfraujoch, July 16, 2014. The tennis world number 3 and the Alpine skiing champion played on a specially prepared tennis court on a glacier at an altitude of 11,401 feet.

Credit: Denis Balibouse

India

A Muslim girl looks up while some boys sit on a wall, at a mosque as they wait for Iftar (breaking fast) meal during the holy month of Ramadan in the southern Indian city of Chennai, July 16, 2014.

Credit: Babu/Reuters

Brazil

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff (L) and China's President Xi Jinping arrive at the Planalto Palace before a meeting on the sidelines of the 6th BRICS summit in Brasilia, July 17, 2014.

Credit: Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters

Great Britain

Crawford Butler, the longest serving Yeoman Warden at the Tower of London, poses with the first ceramic poppy to be 'planted' in the dry moat at Tower of London in London, England, July 17, 2014. The poppy is the first of 888,246 created by artist Paul Cummins to represent the British Military personnel that died in the First World War. The display will be installed by a team of volunteers from across the UK with the last to be put in place on Armistice Day on November 11, 2014.

Credit: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

South Korea

Festival goers wrestle in the mud during the annual Boryeong Mud Festival at Daecheon Beach in Boryeong, South Korea, July 18, 2014. The mud, which is believed to have beneficial effects on the skin due to its mineral content, is sourced from mud flats near Boryeong and transported to the beach by truck.

Credit: Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images

Palestine

Mourners carry the bodies of the four Palestinian children from the Baker family during their funeral in Gaza City, July 16, 2014. The four Palestinian children were killed and another child was critically wounded on a Gaza beach on Wednesday by the shell fired by the Israeli naval gunboat, a Palestinian health official said.

Credit: Finbarr O'Reilly/Reuters

Ukraine

People light candles at the Malaysian embassy for victims of Malaysia Airlines MH17, which crashed in eastern Ukraine, in Kiev, July 17, 2014. The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777, flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was brought down in eastern Ukraine on Thursday, killing all 298 people aboard and sharply raising the stakes in a conflict between Kiev and pro-Moscow rebels.

Credit: Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters

Ukraine

An armed pro-Russian separatist stands at a site of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane crash in the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk region, July 17, 2014. The Malaysian airliner MH-17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine by pro-Russian militants on Thursday, killing all 298 people aboard, a Ukrainian interior ministry official said. Dozens of bodies were scattered around the smouldering wreckage of a passenger jet that crashed in a field in eastern Ukraine on Thursday, a Reuters reporter said. An emergency services rescue worker said that debris from the wreckage was spread across an area up to about nine miles in diameter.

Credit: Maxim Zmeyev /Reuters

Ukriane

A picture taken on July 18, 2014 shows belongings of passengers on the site of the crash of the Malaysia Airlines jet carrying 298 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur a day after it crashed, near the town of Shaktarsk, in rebel-held east Ukraine. All 298 people on board Flight MH17 died when the plane crashed.